Validate recovery snapshot endorsement chains in memory (#8092)

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Align benchmark baselines and cap history (#8073)

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Prepare CCF 7.0.9 release metadata (#8054)

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Retry first network identity fetch when joining from a stale snapshot (…

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Enable LONG_TESTS in coverage workflow (#8032)

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Curl is for nothing (#7959)

Update didx509cpp from 0.12.0 to 0.99.0 (#7943)

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[release/6.x] Cherry pick: Pin ARK issuer and algorithm (#7934) (#7938)

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#2 Make previous identity endorsement fetching robust to the ledger g…

…aps (#7922)

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Fix contiguous ledger test failure (#7878)

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